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Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Tara McClinton: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Tara McClinton
Interim director of anaesthetics, critical care, theatres and sterile services (ACCTSS), Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 28 May 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Tara McClinton: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Interim director of anaesthetics, critical care, theatres and sterile services (ACCTSS), Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
- Quoted on
- NHS waiting lists
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 28 May 2026
04 The signal · where Tara McClinton sits on nhs waiting lists
Quoted
Quoted in the press on nhs waiting lists.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Tim GardnerThink tankDeputy Director of Policy, The Health FoundationLeading
Prof Meghana PanditRegulatorDeputy Chief Executive Officer (NHS England) / Chief Executive Officer (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)Leading
Sarah WoolnoughThink tankChief Executive, The King's FundLeading- Sally ThompsonSector leaderPhlebotomist
Marlen SullerBusiness leaderManaging Director, Clinical Diagnostics EMEA, Magentus- Tara McClintonSector leaderInterim director of anaesthetics, critical care, theatres and sterile services (ACCTSS), Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
- Chris RoebuckSector leaderhead of profession for statistics at NHS England
- Joe McCloudClinicianConsultant Surgeon and Divisional Medical Director for Surgery, Anaesthetics, Cancer and Critical Care
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05 On the record · press
What Tara McClinton has said
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- bbc.com
- belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Where Tara McClinton has been quoted
- Health: Waiting times for red flag diagnoses to be tackled by £80bbc.com · 28 May 2026
- £80m boost for hospital waiting lists as Stormont health minister targets red flag delaysbelfasttelegraph.co.uk · 28 May 2026
How we found the articles that name Tara McClinton: we searched news for these terms.
- NHS waiting list
- waiting list
- elective waiting times
- elective recovery
- elective backlog
- waiting list backlog
- referral to treatment
- RTT
Also searched with “NHS waiting list” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for NHS waiting lists
Verbatim
“The Mater's Elective Overnight Stay Centre represents a significant development in elective care delivery for Belfast Trust and has made an important contribution to reducing long waits for surgery.”
“Working in partnership with clinical and theatre teams, the centre has supported delivery against Elective Care Framework priorities and Programme for Government waiting list targets, while helping release capacity for more complex patients across the wider hospital system”
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